New Lineage of Lassa Virus, Togo, 2016

New Lineage of Lassa Virus, Togo, 2016

We describe a strain of Lassa virus representing a putative new lineage that was isolated from a cluster of human infections with an epidemiologic link to Togo. This finding extends the known range of Lassa virus to Togo.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Shannon L.M. Whitmer, Thomas Strecker, Daniel Cadar, Hans-Peter Dienes, Kelly Faber, Ketan Patel, Shelley M. Brown, William G. Davis, John D. Klena, Pierre E. Rollin, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet, Bernd Noack, Petra Emmerich, Toni Rieger, Svenja Wolff, Sarah Katharina Fehling, Markus Eickmann, Jan Philipp Mengel, Tilman Schultze, Torsten Hain, William Ampofo, Kofi Bonney, Juliana Naa Dedei Aryeequaye, Bruce Ribner, Jay B. Varkey, Aneesh K. Mehta, G. Marshall Lyon, Gerrit Kann, Philipp De Leuw, Gundolf Schuettfort, Christoph Stephan, Ulrike Wieland, Jochen W.U. Fries, Matthias Kochanek, Colleen S. Kraft, Timo Wolf, Stuart T. Nichol, Stephan Becker, Ute Ströher, Stephan Günther
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018-03-01
Series:	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:	Lassa fever Lassa virus arenaviruses Old World viral hemorrhagic fever Togo viruses
Online Access:	https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/3/17-1905_article

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